Charlotte Rains Dixon

VIP Day

You yearn to write. Maybe it’s a book. You know it will help you serve more people, allow you to have a bigger impact in the world and change more lives. Bottom line is that a book will assist you to more easily do what you were called here to accomplish. Or maybe its a […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Process

Expansion and Contraction, or Glumping and Haiku

Convincing a group of at-risk teens that writing is not only a useful activity, but a fun one, could be a bit of a challenge, wouldn't you say? And that was my charge at a workshop I co-lead on Monday for an organization I volunteer for, Step It Up. The nonprofit hosts a Career Club […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Clarity

Conjuring Clarity

I work with writers and other creative types in a variety of ways, including one-hour sessions that help them to gain clarity about their work. I do this through this very website and at events like Room to Write in Nashville, where I am the resident "book doctor" on call to guide writers. What I […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/06/2015

Prompts

Promptitude: Whiney Baby

At the beginning of this week, I wrote about fear. As I've progressed through the week, feeling much better about life, I've also been reading SARK's latest book, Glad No Matter What. She writes about a process for clearing out fear and other nasty emotions that plague us. First you write a Mad page (or […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Creative Cognoscente Interviews

Creative Cognoscente Interview: Tara Sophia Mohr

Thus beginneth a new feature, the Creative Cognoscente Interviews. For the record, Cognoscente is pronounced kon-yuh-shen-tee, and it means: persons who have superior knowledge and understanding of a particular field… Nobody better fits that definition than Tara Sophia Mohr, whose interview kicks off this new series. I'm not sure how I first stumbled on […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Enough

I'm working with the concept of enough this week. I was inspired to ponder enough by the weekly message at my church. The reason I love attending church, which is a habit only acquired in December, is that what I get from it stays with me all week. Every Sunday I get some tidbit that […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Fear

I hate earthquakes. Like hate hate them. They terrify me. And yes, I've been in a few. Not big ones, because we generally don't get big earthquakes here, even though the experts say that the Northwest is due for a whopper like the one that hit Japan. And so I, like so many others, have […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Prompts

Promptitude: Super Moon Edition

In case you haven't heard, tonight we're having a super moon. There's all kinds of craziness going on around this phenomenon, but basically the earth's orbit is the closest its been to the moon in 18 years. I'm a moon baby, born under the sign of Cancer, and I've always felt the ebb and flow […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Uncategorized

New Blog Schedule

I'm switching it up yet again! For the last few months, I've been blogging on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. But then a couple weeks ago I added Saturday. And that's getting to be too much. So here's my latest plan: I'll post Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Except: For the days when I have guest posts […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Motivation

Expect Nothing, Accept Everything…and Show Up

One of the recent phrases of wisdom I've been attempting to follow is this: Expect nothing, accept everything. To which I add: and show up. I'm not sure where the original quote came from. I heard it at church. It resonates with me because it has taken me a long time to grasp the "expect […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

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